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   From: wetraprock@hotmail.com   
      
   I read Molotov Remembers, and Molotov comes across a lot like   
   O'brien in 1984.  So is the Orwellian character O'brien modeled   
   after Molotov?   
      
   I see that the author of Molotov Remembers also did a Kaganovich   
   book at about the same time in the early 1990s, but, like the full   
   original version of Solzhenitsyn's First Circle, has been published   
   relatively recently in Russian but never translated.  Also, the first   
   chapter of Gorky's Belomor has never been translated.   
      
   Us armchair sovietologists and Russo-philes have a problem not knowing   
   Russian.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)